OSCR Scottish charity profile

A E H Salvesen's 1985 Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC002224
Registered6 March 1985
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC002224
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 6AQ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Charity awards grants to eligible institutions. The Charity maintains an endowment fund to allow for such grants to be made, the Charity invests strategically in companies which Trustees deem comple

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • the advancement of animal welfare
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The Trust Fund shall be held by the Trustees in trust for the following purposes:- ... (THIRD) For such purposes as the law shall, from time to time regard as charitable within the meaning of Section 360 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 or any Act amending or replacing the same, the Trustees being hereby directed to distribute the Trust fund at such time or times and in such amounts as they may determine in their sole discretion for such charitable purposes only, with power to the Trustees in their discretion to accumulate the Trust income in whole or in part, for a period of Twenty One years from the date hereof:

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£61,942£377,762018 May 2026
30 September 2024£62,094£48,169025 June 2025
30 September 2023£59,432£74,918014 June 2024
30 September 2022£49,855£82,466019 May 2023
30 September 2021£93,343£93,343026 May 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Murray Beith Murray LLP, 3 Glenfinlas Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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